He Chaolian "married" actor Dou Xiao, which attracted huge attention and continued to dominate the hot search for several days, which shows that his family power is indeed huge.
Because of her wedding, it also involved wealthy grudges between other siblings, after all, her father Stanley Ho has 17 children, of which she is more close to her is the eldest daughter He Chaoqiong.
The two also participated in a jewelry event together not long ago, and the on-site interaction was very intimate, and some people speculated that this time He Chaolian got married, and her sister He Chaoqiong would also give a generous gift, but she did not appear at the scene.
Also the "most beautiful daughter of the gambling king", He Chaoqiong and He Chaolian's personalities are completely different: the former is a strong woman, but she is quite emotionally unhappy, and she is still alone at the age of 61; The latter is a little princess who is pampered by thousands of people, and she is also casual in her love choices.
Compared with He Chaolian, He Chaoqiong's past stories are more heartbreaking, especially the farewell to singer Chen Baiqiang:
30 years ago, his predecessor Chen Baiqiang committed suicide by taking drugs, and He Chaoqiong, who had just been married for two years, insisted on supporting his soul despite gossip and secular practices, causing a sensation.
Now many years later, this story is still a good story, but the past is over, He Chaoqiong has lived as a strong woman who wins in life.
It's just that in the dead of night, she is in her early 60s and still alone, remembering that she should still not be able to calm down.
1. The chosen successor
Born in 1962, Ho Chaoqiong is the daughter of Stanley Ho and his second wife Lan Qiongying, ranking 5th among the 17 children in the family.
It is rumored that on the day she was born, the gambling king just got the business license of the Macau casino, so she was looked up by her father and felt that this daughter could bring good luck to herself.
But don't look at He Chaoqiong's popularity today, but when she was a child, she was also a literary and artistic young woman who loved literature, and she liked collecting, literature and poetry.
However, Ho Chaoqiong's hobbies are completely opposite to her father's expectations of her, and Stanley Ho only hopes that her daughter can be her successor in the future.
He Chaoqiong's grades have always been outstanding, and later he was directly admitted to the world-famous Vassal Academy to study art.
At the age of 19, with her outstanding appearance, she easily broke into the Hong Kong entertainment industry with her talent and background, and soon became friends with many stars.
At that time, Chen Baiqiang was already popular in both sides of the strait and three places.
He is 3 years older than her, and he was also born into a wealthy merchant family, but his mother is also not his father's main wife, so in addition to having a feeling of a noble son, he also seems less confident - this is very similar to He Chaoqiong's experience, so it is not unusual for the two to be able to get close to each other.
Chen Baiqiang debuted in 1977 and became a big seller, so he gained a lot of fans, including He Chaoqiong.
The two met in 1982 when filming the TVB youth drama "Breakthrough", in which He Chaoqiong made a cameo role in it, and their fate began.
Under getting along, the two gradually sparked.
However, Chen Baiqiang has a gentle personality and does not like the fight between the giants, so even if he fell in love with He Chaoqiong, he never confessed.
But liking a person is always impossible to hide, and it is said that the song "Like You" that made him red to purple in the future was sung to He Chaoqiong.
After that, they went on the show together, occasionally appeared in some parties in the same frame, and they all seemed emotional.
He Chaoqiong said that Chen Baiqiang is a big boy with a strong sense of responsibility; Although Chen Baiqiang was not good at expression, he specially selected a pair of beautiful pearl earrings to give to the girl in his heart.
In 1985, the man released the album of the same name "Deeply in Love with You", and also invited He Chaoqiong to play the heroine of his title song MV.
A few years later, He Chaoqiong attended Chen Baiqiang's 30th birthday banquet, and after the two were slightly drunk, he rested his head on the shoulder of his beloved woman and showed a shy smile.
This is the most direct time Chen Baiqiang shows his love for He Chaoqiong, but it is not this photo that records two young people who are in love with each other, which caused a big disaster.
Seeing the photos in the newspapers, Stanley Ho was furious, he felt that his daughter should put the interests of the family first, even if it was the choice of marriage.
Since then, Stanley Ho has publicly stated more than once that Chen Baiqiang is not suitable for his daughter.
Not only that, he also pulled He Chaoqiong out of the entertainment industry, and even banned the man through his relationship.
Stanley Ho, who is in his 60s, did this largely because the eldest son Ho Youguang, who was originally regarded as the successor of the family business, died in a car accident, resulting in a new search for a successor.
He Chaoqiong, who was talented, was selected, which completely changed her love with Chen Baiqiang, and even her entire fate.
2. Missing out on loved ones for the benefit of the family
In order to "beat the Mandarin Duck" faster, and at the same time for the greater expansion of the family business, Stanley Ho actively began to choose the "Dragon Express": Xu Jinheng, the son of the "ship king", made a high-profile appearance at this time.
Xu Jinheng is a famous "actress sniper", who fought hot with Carina Lau before, but the woman was also not accepted by the family, thinking that she was just a "drama".
In order to rebel against the family, Xu Jinheng even moved out of Xu's house and lived with Liu Jialing, and the two also held a small engagement ceremony.
But in 1988, they did not enter into marriage smoothly, and Xu Jinheng officially announced their breakup.
Three years later, 29-year-old Ho Chaoqiong married Xu Jinheng, and the wedding banquet at the time was called the "fairy tale wedding of the century" and cost as much as 20 million Hong Kong dollars.
In order to reflect the importance he attached to his daughter, Stanley Ho took out 1 billion yuan in dowry, and there were countless jewelry and antiques of all kinds.
Chen Baiqiang also appeared at the wedding banquet, but his identity was the woman's brother and friend.
He Chaoqiong at the wedding wore a wedding dress of up to 600,000, her face was still exquisite and beautiful, but her eyes were lonely and haggard that could not be hidden, and there was no trace of joy.
Seeing that his most beloved married someone else, Chen Baiqiang soon after composed a song called "Just Because I Love You", and he sang mournfully:
"If you want to fall in love with someone you don't love, you feel like you can't be loved... In this long world, how can I feel that I can not die..."
When talking about love in an interview, Chen Baiqiang did not shy away from mentioning that he was "a complete failure".
When He Chaoqiong was asked by a reporter what her most desired wish was, she just said: "I hope to be the pride of the family." ”
But behind this so-called "pride" is the appearance of separation between her husband Xu Jinheng.
As celebrities, the two still appear together, but every time He Chaoqiong is photographed looking lonely, and her husband also has lace news from time to time.
In January 1992, Chen Baiqiang held three farewell concerts and suddenly announced that he was about to completely retire from the music scene at the end of the year.
It is said that after He Chaoqiong got married, Chen Baiqiang was depressed every day, had to rely on a lot of alcohol to fall asleep, and then continued to numb himself with alcohol after waking up.
In addition to the emotional blow, there were also problems in his career at that time:
With the rise of "king" level singers such as Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung, and Jacky Cheung, although Chen Baiqiang also came up with classic works such as "What to Ask for in Life", he did not receive anything at the 1990 Music Awards.
Therefore, it is not unusual for him to have the idea of withdrawing.
But what no one expected was that four months after announcing his withdrawal, Chen Baiqiang chose an extreme way and stuck his age at 35 forever.
On May 18, 1992, he took a number of sleeping pills with alcohol, causing irreversible brain damage, fell into a deep coma, and could only rely on a ventilator to maintain his life after being sent to the hospital.
After He Chaoqiong learned this, he did not listen to the dissuasion of his family, regardless of his identity as a wife, he immediately put down working together, appeared in the hospital every day to accompany him, and also talked to himself, hoping to wake up his lover.
But the miracle did not happen, and 17 months later, Chen Baiqiang died of organ failure in a deep coma without leaving a word of farewell.
In Hong Kong, there is a saying that "it is not auspicious for a wife to help the casket", but He Chaoqiong still did not listen to the dissuasion of his father and husband, and insisted on attending Chen Baiqiang's funeral as a surviving person.
Not only that, He Chaoqiong also personally supported the spirit, and at the same time hugged Chen Baiqiang's mother tightly, and the media at the time recorded this touching scene.
And this incident also became the last straw for her marriage with her husband Xu Jinheng to quickly die.
After that, the two became strangers until He Chaoqiong unilaterally announced their divorce in 2000.
It is said that when He Chaoqiong faced the media at that time, he also directly said: "We have been married for two years", which means that their husband and wife really live together, only the first two years of marriage.
Because soon after, Chen Baiqiang swallowed medicine and died, and the couple began to separate.
3. After rebellion, you are alone
He Chaoqiong was 38 years old at the time of divorce, but she unexpectedly began a "rebellious" time, and she was repeatedly photographed going in pairs with Yang Shoucheng's son Yang Qilong.
Yang Qilong is 5 years younger than He Chaoqiong, is Yang Shoucheng's most troublesome son, has been a son-in-law since he was a child, and gossip girlfriends include Cecilia Cheung, Maggie Q, etc., all of which are goddess-level.
His experience is very different from He Chaoqiong, but what everyone did not expect was that the two accidentally "cooperated".
——Perhaps behind this is He Chaoqiong's rebellion after being suppressed for a long time with "not going out of line" as the standard of life.
It is said that this relationship was also vigorously suppressed by her father, and even publicly bombarded Yang Qilong for "bad texture", but she still ignored it, and even lived directly with the other party.
However, in the end, He Chaoqiong returned to the family and never talked about a complete love since.
At this time, she seemed to have completely surrendered herself to the business: after joining her father's DXN Group in 1995, Ho began to show her business acumen.
Although she was the youngest and most female senior executive in her family at the time, she had a unique idea.
Although in the eyes of the outside world, she is a "tragic woman" controlled by the family, in terms of feelings, He Chaoqiong still has her own persistence and decency.
8 years after the divorce, her ex-husband Xu Jinheng and the "most beautiful Hong Kong sister" Li Jiaxin achieved positive results, and the two once kissed on the street before they got married.
In 2008, Xu Jinheng married Li Jiaxin in a high-profile manner.
On the wedding day, He Chaoqiong put the "sky-high" wedding dress she wore when she got married more than ten years ago and put it on display in her hotel.
This approach not only harvested a wave of popularity, but also implied that Li Jiaxin's origin and himself cannot be compared.
But interestingly, when gambling king Stanley Ho died, Li Jiaxin posted a photo with Chen Baiqiang many years ago on his social platform, openly provoking and winning back a game.
However, when He Chaoqiong was asked about her views on feelings, she was still very happy, she bluntly said that "the previous marriage was a torture", and then explained:
"It's me who tortures myself, because people who are too attached to love are obviously not in line with this era!"
Some people look at this strong woman again, and feel that she has completely detached her concept of worldly love, but when her father died, she was once again paid attention to her inner turns.
In 2020, in order to remember Stanley Ho's life, He Chaoqiong recorded his life experience in the form of an electronic photo album.
In one photo, her "love of life" Chen Baiqiang appears, although only half of her face.
In Cantonese, "half-sided" means son-in-law - this discovery made many netizens cry.
Some people think that Chen Baiqiang, who has been dead for 28 years, appeared in his family's photo collection, and his recognition and remembrance are self-evident.
The following year, He Chaoqiong released a New Year's greeting video, and she, who is worth more than $3.6 billion, still wears the pair of pearl earrings that Chen Baiqiang gave her many years ago.
It is said that in the 30 years since the death of his lover, He Chaoqiong will visit the cemetery every year to sweep Chen Baiqiang's grave, and has always taken care of Chen's mother's later life in a low-key manner.
Now, her sister is married to the average male star Dou Xiao in a high-profile manner, which also makes people sigh:
The love between He Chaoqiong and Chen Baiqiang is not born at the right time!
But in any case, the Si people have gone, and He Chaoqiong tells everyone with practical actions: the so-called wealthy family is also affectionate.